GHSA-jcwr-x25h-x5fh

codehaus-plexus vulnerable to XML injection

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2022-4245

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils	< 3.0.24	3.0.24

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A flaw was found in codehaus-plexus. The `org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlWriterUtil#writeComment` fails to sanitize comments for a `-->` sequence. This issue means that text contained in the command string could be interpreted as XML and allow for XML injection.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4245 advisory
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/issues/3 web
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/commit/f933e5e78dc2637e485447ed821fe14904f110de web
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2135 web
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3906 web
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4245 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149843 web
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils package
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-461102 web